The Obama administration on Wednesday will release a task force report on surveillance reform that’s expected to propose that telecom giants, not the National Security Agency, should maintain millions of telephone call records on behalf of the government.

The recommendation is one of 46 potential new limits on surveillance made by the so-called Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which President Barack Obama chartered to study the NSA and its existing operations in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks.

Obama himself does not appear to have decided which of the recommendations to support. Press Secretary Jay Carney said earlier Wednesday the president would speak publicly about the proposed surveillance reforms sometime in January — but, for now, the administration decided to release the review group’s initial findings to combat what Carney described as “inaccurate and incomplete” press reports.

The review group’s recommendations arrive during an especially thorny week for the NSA and its chief defenders. A federal court judge on Monday found the agency’s program to collect phone call logs in bulk was likely unconstitutional.

Obama himself also heard firsthand about the heartburn the NSA’s activities have caused major technology companies, which met the president at the White House for a meeting Tuesday. In attendance were Apple CEO Tim Cook, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other top executives from companies that have fought the administration both rhetorically and legally on its surveillance practices.

Attention now turns to the president’s surveillance task force. One of its top recommendations is expected to have companies like AT&T and Verizon store the phone-call data on behalf of the NSA.

It’s a plan that could trigger serious opposition: Wireless giants through their biggest D.C. trade association, CTIA, previously told POLITICO they have concerns about holding the data, saying it could expose the companies to new liabilities. Some in Congress also have their doubts, and civil liberties groups have said the plan could be bad for consumer privacy.

Members of the president’s panel include Richard Clarke, a top, former national security official; Cass Sunstein, a regulatory chief at OMB during the Obama administration; Michael Morell, the former CIA deputy director; Geoffrey Stone, the dean at University of Chicago Law; and Peter Swire, a privacy expert and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The roster initially drew criticism from civil liberties groups, who seized on the absence of a technologist on the task force.